"Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear."

-- Victor Hugo

#Death Quotes #Night Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.”
“The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.”
“Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”
“Not a lot of gay guys end up coming to alt-comedy-ish shows. They like all these '80s shimmer shows, or they like going to drag shows. It is always weird and interesting when I meet somebody at a gay bar who is familiar with my stuff.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”
“The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1989). “Theory of religion”, Zone Books (NY)
“By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.”
“Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.”

Source : "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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